Trading Networks Attributes and EDI Documents
Trading Networks attributes specify the content from a document to use for later processing. For example, you can define the processing rule criteria to select which processing rule is executed based on the value of an attribute.
Trading Networks supports two types of attributes:
System attributes, which
Trading Networks defines.
Custom attributes, which are additional attributes that are added to
Trading Networks.
Module for EDI provides some custom attributes. Additionally, you can write code to define your own custom attributes and assign them values.
At run time, Module for EDI uses information from the EDI document being processed to set values for some of the system attributes and custom attributes.
You can use attributes to:
Process EDI documents using content-based processing rules, that is, select a processing rule for a document based on the value of the attributes extracted from the document.
Search for saved documents based on attribute values.